Dr. Melita Samoilys

Co-Director · CORDIO East Africa · company speakers →

Melita is a co-Director of CORDIO East Africa, based in Kenya. She works in coral reef and fisheries research, management and conservation in East Africa, elsewhere in the Indian Ocean and has also worked in the Red Sea and Pacific. She has contributed to marine protected areas and fisheries policy development in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, Australia, Fiji and Solomon Islands and globally. Melita was born in Tanzania, educated in Uganda, UK and Australia, and has lived in Kenya for 25 years. Her areas of experience include coral reef ecology particularly of fishes, marine protected areas, climate change, artisanal fisheries, community-based conservation and vulnerable species protection. She is a member of three IUCN Species Specialist Groups - Groupers and Wrasses, Shark (Vice Chair Africa), Snapper Seabream and Grunt (Co-Chair). She is an Associate Editor of the Royal Society Open Science Journal and on the Editorial Board of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Journal. Melita’s MSc and PhD were from Queensland University and James Cook University in Australia. She is a Senior Research Associate at University of Oxford and Adjunct Academic Staff at Pwani University, Kenya.

Is this you? Claim this profile →